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| <p>The General Data Protection Regulation (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation">GDPR</a>) law enforces the right for individuals to have personal data erased.</p> |
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| <p>The following procedure describes how to remove a user’s data from a cluster and the Keycloak database.</p> |
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| <p>The following commands use the default Kubernetes namespace or OpenShift project, <code>eclipse-che</code>, as a user’s example for the <code>-n</code> option.</p> |
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| <div class="title">Prerequisites</div> |
| <ul> |
| <li> |
| <p>A user or an administrator authorization token. To delete any other data except the data bound to a user account, <code>admin</code> privileges are required. The <code>admin</code> is a special Che administrator account pre-created and enabled using the <code>CHE_SYSTEM_ADMIN__NAME</code> and <code>CHE_SYSTEM_SUPER__PRIVILEGED__MODE = true</code> Custom Resource definitions.</p> |
| <div class="listingblock"> |
| <div class="content"> |
| <pre>spec: |
| server: |
| customCheProperties: |
| CHE_SYSTEM_SUPER__PRIVILEGED__MODE: 'true' |
| CHE_SYSTEM_ADMIN__NAME: '<em><admin-name></em>'</pre> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="paragraph"> |
| <p>If needed, use commands below for creating the <code>admin</code> user:</p> |
| </div> |
| <div class="listingblock"> |
| <div class="content"> |
| <pre>$ kubectl patch checluster/eclipse-che \ |
| --type merge \ |
| -p '{ "spec": { "server": {"customCheProperties": {"CHE_SYSTEM_SUPER__PRIVILEGED__MODE": "true"} } }}' \ |
| -n <em>eclipse-che</em></pre> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="listingblock"> |
| <div class="content"> |
| <pre>$ kubectl patch checluster/eclipse-che \ |
| --type merge \ |
| -p '{ "spec": { "server": {"customCheProperties": {"CHE_SYSTEM_ADMIN__NAME": "<em><admin-name></em>"} } }}' \ |
| -n <em>eclipse-che</em></pre> |
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| <p>All system permissions are granted to the administrative user who is configured in the <code>CHE_SYSTEM_ADMIN__NAME</code> property (the default is <code>admin</code>). The system permissions are granted when the Che server starts. If the user is not present in the Che user database, it happens after the first user’s login.</p> |
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| <div class="ulist"> |
| <div class="title">Authorization token privileges:</div> |
| <ul> |
| <li> |
| <p><code>admin</code> - Can delete all personal data of all users</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p><code>user</code> - Can delete only the data related to the user</p> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
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| <p>A user or an administrator is logged in the OpenShift cluster with deployed Che.</p> |
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| <p>A user ID is obtained. Get the user ID using the commands below:</p> |
| <div class="ulist"> |
| <ul> |
| <li> |
| <p>For the current user:</p> |
| <div class="listingblock"> |
| <div class="content"> |
| <pre>$ curl -X GET \ |
| --header 'Authorization: Bearer <em><user-token></em>' \ |
| 'https://<em><che-host></em>/api/user'</pre> |
| </div> |
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| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>To find a user by name:</p> |
| <div class="listingblock"> |
| <div class="content"> |
| <pre>$ curl -X GET \ |
| --header 'Authorization: Bearer <em><user-token></em>' \ |
| 'https://<em><che-host></em>/api/user/find?name=<em><username></em>'</pre> |
| </div> |
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| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>To find a user by email:</p> |
| <div class="listingblock"> |
| <div class="content"> |
| <pre>$ curl -X GET \ |
| --header 'Authorization: Bearer <em><user-token></em>' \ |
| 'https://<em><che-host></em>/api/user/find?email=<em><email></em>'</pre> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="paragraph"> |
| <div class="title">Example of obtaining a user ID</div> |
| <p>This example uses <code>vparfono</code> as a local user name.</p> |
| </div> |
| <div class="exampleblock"> |
| <div class="content"> |
| <div class="listingblock"> |
| <div class="content"> |
| <pre>$ curl -X GET \ |
| --header 'Authorization: Bearer <em><user-token></em>' \ |
| 'https://che-vp-che.apps.che-dev.x6e0.p1.openshiftapps.com/api/user/find?name=vparfono'</pre> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="paragraph"> |
| <p>The user ID is at the bottom of the curl command output.</p> |
| </div> |
| <div class="listingblock"> |
| <div class="content"> |
| <pre class="highlightjs highlight"><code class="language-json hljs" data-lang="json">{ |
| "name": "vparfono", |
| "links": [ |
| { |
| . |
| . |
| . |
| } |
| ], |
| "email": "vparfono@redhat.com", |
| "id": "921b6f33-2657-407e-93a6-fb14cf2329ce" |
| }</code></pre> |
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| <div class="olist arabic"> |
| <div class="title">Procedure</div> |
| <ol class="arabic"> |
| <li> |
| <p>Update the <code>eclipse-che</code> <code>CheCluster Custom</code> Resource (CR) definition to permit the removal of a user’s data from the Keycloak database:</p> |
| <div class="listingblock"> |
| <div class="content"> |
| <pre>$ kubectl patch checluster/eclipse-che \ |
| --patch "{\"spec\":{\"server\":{\"customCheProperties\": {\"CHE_KEYCLOAK_CASCADE__USER__REMOVAL__ENABLED\": \"true\"}}}}" \ |
| --type=merge -n <em>eclipse-che</em></pre> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>Remove the data using the API:</p> |
| <div class="listingblock"> |
| <div class="content"> |
| <pre>$ curl -i -X DELETE \ |
| --header 'Authorization: Bearer <em><user-token></em>' \ |
| https://<em><che-host></em>/api/user/<em><user-id></em></pre> |
| </div> |
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| <div class="title">Verification</div> |
| <p>Running the following command returns code <code>204</code> as the API response:</p> |
| </div> |
| <div class="listingblock"> |
| <div class="content"> |
| <pre>$ curl -i -X DELETE \ |
| --header 'Authorization: Bearer <em><user-token></em>' \ |
| https://<em><che-host></em>/api/user/<em><user-id></em></pre> |
| </div> |
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| <div class="title">Additional resources</div> |
| <p>To remove the data of all users, follow the instructions for <a href="../../installation-guide/uninstalling-che/" class="page">Uninstalling Che</a>.</p> |
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